Systems Development Engineer, Faraday

The AWS Region Services team is hiring a cleared Systems Development Engineer to support cloud security services for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Our team is tasked with protecting the AWS infrastructure that is used by our National Security customers. Join our mission to help lead, deploy, and support the security systems that raise the security bar for the U.S. Government!

• Operate within the team of peer engineers with lots of personal autonomy to solve complex systems engineering problems through innovative approaches.
• Provide guidance on system architecture and recommend solutions in alignment with systems engineering best practices.
• Calmly and quickly diagnose and fix critical system failures in high pressure situations to reduce Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
• Engineer Operational Improvements to reduce operational efforts to Keep the Lights On.
• Troubleshoot unknown-unknown problems into known-known root causes using your holistic knowledge of systems to break the problem down and isolate the cause(s); then drive them to resolution

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges

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